Word Finder - leg

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A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion.

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{{ux|en|Insects have six legs.}

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In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.

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Dan won't be able to come to the party, since he broke his leg last week and is now on crutches.

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The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.

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A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.

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The left leg of these jeans has a tear.

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A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.

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the legs of a chair or table

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Something that supports.

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This observation is an important leg of my argument.

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A stage of a journey, race etc.

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After six days, we're finally in the last leg of our cross-country trip.

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A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.

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One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.

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A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.

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One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.

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One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.

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(usually used in plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.

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This proposal has no legs. Almost everyone opposes it.

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A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.

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An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.

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In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.

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Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.

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Ponsonby-Smythe hit a thumping drive through the leg fielders.

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A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.

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A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.

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An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.

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An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.

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A gesture of submission; a bow or curtsey. Chiefly in phrase make a leg.

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To remove the legs from an animal carcass.

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To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

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To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.

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To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').

After your leg is broken next week.

She wore a silk blouse, Jimmy Choo's and a pencil skirt with a slit up the side, which gave just a glimpse of leg that went on forever.

Sarah sat on the counter with one leg on either side of Connor, kissing him.

The wounded leg soon became so much worse that the horse was suspended from a beam.

She kicked out her wounded leg.

He noticed her bleeding leg and yelled to a medic.

A bug crawled across her leg, and she swiped it away.

The little girl, hair streaming, offered encouragement while skating backwards, one leg lifted high and beckoning unsuccessfully for Dean to follow.

Dropping him on the sofa, Jackson sat back in his chair and crossed one long leg over the other knee at the ankle.

Winston hooked a leg around a chair and sat.

How is your leg?

Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without danger, although when the first trials are made you may have to pay for the experience, and not mind an arm or leg."

One leg was patched up with an untidy bandage kept in position by a wrinkled stocking.

It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon.

When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasili sat down all alone on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand.

After much effort I dragged myself up, so that my leg hung down on one side and my body on the other.

She scrambled up and stood on her good leg.

Bordeaux lay against her back, one arm around her waist and one leg thrown carelessly over hers.

A gray haired woman with long braids and no teeth jerked on Cassie's pants leg.

Betsy is standing on one leg and she's holding a Time magazine, open to page eighteen.

Aldo shot him in the leg, not wishing to kill him, which I assure you he could have easily done.

You're looking for someone treated Saturday night or Sunday morning for a gunshot wound to the leg.

She unfastened the belt of her robe and hunched up, pushing it aside, letting it fall open just enough to expose an uninterrupted line of flesh from between her breasts, and down her torso and leg.

Fred looked down at the table, pretending it wasn't his turn, as he wrapped a chicken leg in a piece of dark bread.

I suppose I could have peed on your trouser leg, but that would have been crude.

His trench was long and unfastened, the chilled winter wind whipping back one side to reveal a sword tucked against his leg.

It persisted, and she looked down, jumping to see one of several curious cats nudging her leg.

He too was troubled to distraction by Shipton's presence, enough to pass up such an obvious chance to pull Fred's leg.

She paced as Dean finalized the arrangements with scarcely enough time left to reach the airport before the first leg of the trip was scheduled to board.

He banged himself up fairly badly—broke a couple of ribs, did something to his knee and leg, whacked his head pretty good and cut up his face.

The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence.

Jackson was most definitely a leg man.

Where was the other leg?

Are you pulling my leg, Heidi?

At the table, he slung a long leg over a chair and dropped into it, kicking out the chair next to him for Carmen.

Alex feigned and then hooked Josh's leg again with the toe of his boot, sending Josh to the floor twice in as many minutes.

She screamed as pain shot through her ankle and up her leg.

He dropped into the chair and slung a long leg over the arm.

He grabbed her leg and with a quick jerk, dislodged her from the tree - right into his waiting arms.

A gash in one leg prevented him from rising, and he whined as she knelt beside him.

Katie nodded and sawed at the root, dripped more blood, then sawed again.  She forced herself to continue even as she grew tired.  Sticky blood covered the hilt of the dagger, her pants, the root, Deidre's shoe and pants leg.  Katie kept on, uncertain what might happen if she stopped for a break.

Rhyn ignored the demon and left the cell block, returning to the hallway before opening a portal.  He crossed through the shadow world to the beach of the Caribbean Sanctuary.  Toby was dragging Kiki up the beach by one leg.

Toby dropped Kiki's leg and took off for the Sanctuary.  Rhyn strode through the loose sand of the beach and paused beside Kiki.  He set Hannah down.

Even Mrs. Lincoln seemed eager to see him, giving his leg a wel­coming rub.

The final leg of the journey was a long dirt road that climbed first through a grove of fir followed by an unbroken forest of hard­wood just beginning to bud.

But after the first leg, we're on our own.

The trip between Baltimore and Norfolk was in a much small­er aircraft than the first leg of the journey.

Neither was disappointed when they lapsed into silence for the last leg of the trip.

He could tell his left leg was bleeding through his long bike pants and his head felt rattled but in one piece.

The vehicle contained a roll of gauze and Dean bound his own stiffening leg after spreading a disinfectant on the oozing abrasion.